While some schools across the country are overwhelmed with learners ready to sit for the 2015 Primary School Leaving Certificate Exams (PSLC), only 22 learners of which nine are girls will sit for the national exams at Mchoka Primary school in the area of Group Village Head Ndindi, Traditional Authority Ndindi in Salima. Mchoka Full […]
Most parts of Salima district have had houses destroyed with hailstorm that hit the area this week rendering at least 55 households homeless. Speaking when parliamentarian for the area, Jessie Kabwila, toured the area Group Village Headman Mwadyakale said the rains fell continuously for just about two hours on Tuesday with hailstorm. “We were fortunate that […]
A mortuary in the central region district of Salima risk closure as the facility has overstayed without undergoing a major maintenance in order to prolong its lifespan as sometimes ‘fridge failure’ meant mourners seeing appalling changes to deceased appearances. Salima District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Michael Kayange confirmed that indeed the mortuary is in need […]
Three people, one of them barely a toddler, were buried alive when the illegal mine they were working in crumbled. News of the discovery of garnet, a semi-precious stone – cousins to rubies and raw material for rings and wrist watches, has been around for more than a month now. An ad hoc town is […]
Two men and a two-year- old girl died on Christmas Day at an illegal mine in Malawi’s central regional lakeshore district of Salima after the mine collapsed and buried them alive. Police Public Relations Officer for Salima, Gift Chitowe, confirmed the incident in an interview and identified the three as Adams Mwale, Jusitino Bajesi and […]
Airtel Malawi on Wednesday donated various equipment at Salima District Hospital wealth K2.5 million. Speaking during the ceremony, Airtel Zonal business Manager, Misheck Kabinda said the company decided to donate theatre equipment as part of company’s social responsibility. Receiving the donation, Salima District Health Officer Dr Michael Kayange commended Airtel for the donation saying it will go a […]
Police in Salima have arrested Harrison Jackson, 17, after he was discovered sitting for the 2014 Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examinations on behalf of his friend. Salima Police spokesperson Gift Chitowe said Jackson was arrested at Salima Secondary School cluster centre on the second day for the examinations. “A close examination of […]
One person has been seriously injured when marauding elephants attacked him in his vegetable garden in Malawi’s Central Region Lakeshore district of Salima. The 22-year-old Francis Soko from Simpha Village, Traditional Authority Kalonga in the district, met his fate when about four elephants escaped from Thuma Forest in the evening hours over the weekend. He […]
Another woman in Malawi’s lakeshore district of Salima has given to birth to baby without a nose in what doctors say it’s a condition called “Arhinia”. According to Salima district hospital spokesperson William Kaunda, the baby has irregular features as well and appears blind , was transferred to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KKCH) in Lilongwe for […]
Angry people of Ndiwo Village, Traditional Authority (TA) Kalonga in Salima on Saturday took the law into their own hands and stoned a suspected thief to death, in a move which some locals have said is a sign of the community’s frustration caused by increased cases of house break-ins in the district. According to Salima […]
A ten-year-old girl, who went missing on Saturday, was found dead along the Salima – Balaka Road near Katelera trading centre in Salima, a day after she went missing. Post-mortem conducted at Salima District Hospital indicates that the deceased died due to strangulation. The girl’s mother, Loveness Chimombo, said she realised that her daughter was […]
In a bizarre and most morbid incident, police in the Lakeshore District of Salima made a dawn arrest on Tuesday of a 24 year old man who was caught with a freshly cut male genitals of a 45 year old man, which he intended to sell to a well known business lady in the district. […]
Two children were killed and three others injured after a dilapidated pillar collapsed on them in Salima district Sunday evening. The accident occurred inside Lifidzi market in the district at around 5.00pm, according to eye witnesses. One of the eye witnesses, Elias Ndadza said the five children were playing near the crumbling wall the market […]
Youth Leadership Project Africa (YLPA), a non profit making international non-governmental organisation, in conjunction with youths from one of its affiliates in Malawi, Dubai Youth Watch, have donated a bicycle ambulance, mosquito nets, food and other non food items to Salima District hospital, which is on the lakeshores of Malawi. A member of the Board […]
There was low turn-out at the three-day Senga Beach music festival which took place over the weekend at Sunbird Livingstonia Beach Hotel in Salima. Despite bringing together the country’s top notch artists, among them Lucius Banda, Black Missionaries, Skeffa Chimoto and musician of the moment Maskal, the music fest attracted low patronage. The artists and […]